Ricardo Lagos

Ricardo Lagos was president of Chile from 2000 to 2006, and the former UN special envoy for climate change. He is the co-author of The Southern Tiger. He has been profiled in media worldwide, including the BBC and The New York Times, and he has lectured at Harvard University, Yale University, Berkeley University (honored with Medal), Vanderbilt University, the London School of Economics, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank. He is the former cochair of the Inter-American...See more

Ricardo Lagos was president of Chile from 2000 to 2006, and the former UN special envoy for climate change. He is the co-author of The Southern Tiger. He has been profiled in media worldwide, including the BBC and The New York Times, and he has lectured at Harvard University, Yale University, Berkeley University (honored with Medal), Vanderbilt University, the London School of Economics, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank. He is the former cochair of the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington and an editorial board member of Americas Quarterly. Currently a professor at large at Brown University, he lives in Santiago, Chile where he is Chairman of Fundacion Democracia y Desarrollo. See less